Improvement in apparatus for aerating ale and beer in casks



M. LAJuIE el M. Formular.Y

Apparatus for A'erating Ale and Beer in Casks.

No.15a,5'os. Patefdjan. 5,1875.

UNITED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES LAJIE AND MATHIAS PONGELET, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR AERATING ALE AND BEER IN CIASKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,503, dated January5, 1875; application filed November 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MOSES LAJOIE and MATELAS PoNoELET, of Detroit, inthe county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented an ImprovedApparatus for Aerating Ale and Beer in Gasks, of which the following isa specih'cation:

The object of our invention is to provide a simple and cheap apparatus,by means of which ale, beer, and other liquors on draft in casks can becharged with air at any pressure desired. l

The invention consists in providing the barrel of a faucet or draft-cockwith a check-valve, for retaining in the cask the air that is forcedinto it through said check-valve by an ordinary air-pump.

In the drawing, A represents a metal draftcock or faucet, having acheek-valve, B, tapped into the side of its barrel behind the plug. G isan air-pump, adapted to be screwed to the oor by screws through theiange at its base,

which is perforated to admit air to the valve in the bottom of thepump-cylinder, which is connected with the inlet ofthe check-valve by aflexible hose, D.

By means ofthe pump, atmospheric air can be forced into the cask throughthe Valve and cock, aerating the contents of the Cask, and keeping anydesired head 0r pressure upon its contents, which do not become stale ordat when aerated in this manner.

Vhat we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

r I he combination, with the cock A, of the check-valve B, and anair-pump connected therewith by a iflezziblepipe,H substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

MosEs LAJOIE. MATEIAs PoNoELET.

Witnesses:

H. F. EBERTS, H. S. SPRAGUE.

